I agree that Microsoft products can force you to do things in a particular way, but (for example) using a PC you don't have to use them if you don't want to. Numerous people are proud of having a 'Microsoft free' system. Purely numerically speaking in terms of available OS and software choices etc there is a great deal more choice on the x86 platform.

Again, the point I'm making I suppose is that we shouldn't be afraid to say "we use it because we like it".